I love eating at Hawker stalls around town. There is something very quaint about eating at the side of the road, and I always believe that the best local street food come from the hawkers, not from a cafe or restaurant.
I used to pop by these 2 hawker stalls in the Pudu market area for some light simple fare. They are located just next to the RHB Bank on Jalan Pasar in Pudu (the side lane) and they come out in the evenings.
One of the stalls sells porridge (congee) and steamed chicken. The porridge is very smooth and is a meat porridge (”chi yoke chouk”) or you can have it with mixed innards (”chi chap chouk”). Their steamed chicken is also lovely and smooth with a tasty soy sauce ladled over it. This is very much like the fare sold by the stall at Jalan Silang in Kuala Lumpur, but I prefer this stall’s because the porridge tastes less artificial i.e. less artificial seasoning. This set of sliced meat congee and a steamed chicken wing cost RM7.00. As you can see, portions are quite generous.
The other stall slightly further down sells noodles with fishball soup. You can order dry noodles (”kon low”) or in soup. If you order it dry, then the fishballs come separately in a bowl of soup. The soup is quite tasty with a strong taste of tung choi (preserved vegetables). You don’t get these sort of soup very much more these days. I’m not sure why.
The fishballs have a homemade quality about them in that they aren’t all round and smooth and bouncy, but have a strong taste of fish. I like it this way. A normal order will be noodles with 5 fishballs and some slices of fishcake. I felt like eating fishballs that day so I ordered extra fishballs and the order came up to RM5.70. The portion of noodles is quite generous.
Both stalls are open from 6pm onwards until they finish their wares. The steamed chicken goes fast and is usually sold out by 8pm or so while the congee usually sells out by 9 pm or 9.30pm. The noodles sells till slightly later.
Seating is on the five foot way beside the bank and you can order food from both stalls. Seating is usually very limited and if you arrive at say 7pm or thereabouts, expect to have to share your table or wait for a table to free up. You don’t find many roadside stalls anymore, now that many have moved into food courts so if you like simple food in a rustic setting, this is the place to go.
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